Word: unwound
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...below the dizzying spires of cinematic art (musicals, adult westerns), lower even than the swarming, unswept streets of cinematic commerce (cops-and-robbers films, childish westerns), lies a dank catacomb, for years the lair of wound-up scientists, unwound mummies, vampires, hyperpituitary apes, cat men, spacemen and skirt-chasing tyrannosaurs. Here budgets are low, actors obscure (Bela Lugosi is dead and Boris Karloff has graduated to TV) and taglines visceral: The Man Who Turned to Stone ("Incredible revelations from the blackest annals of medicine!"), Zombies of Mora Tau ("A tide of terror!''), Half Human ("Half-man, half-beast...
...still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud got his first crack at opera direction. Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom (with all six feet of her hair unwound) was cast in the ear-rending role of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Conductor Rafael Kubelik presided over a 150-man orchestra and an assortment of behind-the-scenes instrumentalists and vocalists for offstage choruses and flourishes. On a lofty bridge in the flies, 50 singers, an extra conductor, five harpists...
...seconds they rested there, while the winch unwound all its cable. But then they suddenly shot upwards about halfway to the first floor, as the spinning winch started to take in the cable again...
Payoff in Home Runs. For the payoff game the Dodgers had no one left but Don Newcombe, who had started four World Series games, lasted through none. Tormented by the fate that dogged him in the big ones. Big Newk unwound with all he had. When he was on target, his fast ball hummed into life, but when he was wide of the strike zone, he was not wide enough. Even the pitches he wanted to waste hung close to the plate. Squat Yogi Berra, the best fastball hitter in the majors, whacked one of them for a homer...
Will of the People. At the end of the debate, Lord Salisbury, the Tory leader, unwound his lean length to sum up for the government. Emphasizing the point that hanging is a matter of individual conscience, Salisbury, like Canterbury, declared himself against abolition, but also against the status quo. He was not worried that in defying the House of Commons, the lords might be fashioning a legislative noose around their own necks should another Labor government come to power. Salisbury has given much thought to the limits that the lords must set on themselves. When Labor came to power...